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La Rip, who founded a refugee association to help people displaced by the conflict, said Burmese troops have emptied villages by threatening violence against locals if they are attacked by the ethnic militia known as the Kachin Independence Army.

The Myitsone hydro-electric dam, the largest of seven dams to be constructed by the Beijing-controlled China Power Investment Corporation, would have flooded an area of more than 700 square kilometers, and displaced tens of thousands of villagers in northern Kachin State, close to the state capital of Myitkina.

Kachin environmental groups and community leaders in the dam areas and others have done exemplary work in documenting the project and its effects on Kachin State, which has encouraged more overt community activism in recent years.

Skirmishes between Myanmar forces and ethnic Kachin soldiers have continued in recent days after breaking out near China earlier this month, according to dissidents familiar with the clashes, though the scale of the fighting remains unclear, since it is occurring in areas that are largely off-limits to foreign observers.